A woman has been left feeling like a “bit of an idiot” after she mistook a totally innocuous picture for a floating body.
Sarah Gallagher was taking a walk when she decided that the beauty of her surroundings warranted some happy snaps but when she got home she was horrified to discover what she thought was a drowned corpse and called the police.
“The first thing I thought was, ‘Oh my goodness that’s somebody’s arm. It belongs to a person, it’s a human arm’”, Sarah, a college lecturer told The Metro.
After a two-day police manhunt in the Tarn Hows area of the UK’s Lake District the 45-year-old woman was told by authorities that what she had actually taken a picture of was a floating log.
Sarah says while she did feel a little silly, she thinks she did the right thing in reporting it.
“I was hoping it wasn’t going to be a body, but in the back of my mind I thought there are so many people who go missing, maybe this could help a relative’s family who are looking for answers.”
